AFCON: Situma rallies Harambee Stars to rise to occasion, says match against Zimbabwe will be 'total war'

Former Harambee Stars defender James Situma says it will be 'total war' when the national football team clash with Zimbabwe on November 10 in the AFCON 2025 Qualifier.

According to Situma, who also turned up for AFC Leopards, Tusker, Sofapaka, Mathare United and Kakamega Homeboyz, the match will paint the true picture of who might sail through to join Group 'J' leaders Cameroon to AFCON 2025, set for Morocco.

“Our fixture against Zimbabwe will without any doubt paint for us a clear picture of how things could turn out to be,” he explained. “We   messed up against Cameroon losing heavily away 4-1 and a narrow 1-0 loss to them at home in Uganda which condemned us to a pretty difficult situation.

Had we forced even one win from them then things could have been different to what we are facing now.”

Kenya will face Zimbabwe away before hosting Namibia on November 18 in their last group match and must win all the two matches and pray Zimbabwe fails to defeat Cameroon to nail the ticket to Morocco.

Situma however noted that it will be a tricky encounter since Zimbabwe are aware they have everything in their hands and will want to avoid defeat against Kenya at all cost.

“It will be a must that we start preparing to win those matches, because yes, it is in their hands to decide which team will qualify.

We find ourselves in this condition and we can ourselves jump out of it provided we win the two remaining matches against Zimbabwe and Namibia and now pray that they don’t win against heavyweights Cameroon,” added Situma.

Cameroon lead group J with 10 points, two ahead of Zimbabwe while Kenya sit third with 4 points and Namibia sit bottom with no point.